Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Patrick Mahomes: who should I start in Week 6?
Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 11:46 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for either of them, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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RB30 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 2-3
- Overall rank
- 90
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 10
QB13 · KC · bye 5
2026 vs pass yds line 2-2
- Overall rank
- 91
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 3
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size195 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Chris Rodriguez Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 90th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Patrick Mahomes: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 91st overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 4.8 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The market-based projection for Patrick Mahomes is 17.2 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 13 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Chris Rodriguez Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 5, Chris Rodriguez Jr. has been on the field for 23 percent of JAX snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 3 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 18 two minute targets.
His 1 target have averaged 2.0 air yards.
In Week 3 against NE he carried 8 times for 37 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against CIN he carried 6 times for 35 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against PHI he carried 2 times for 5 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards and did not score.
Through Week 4, Patrick Mahomes has been on the field for 100 percent of KC snaps, dropped back 142 times and thrown 7.0 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 21 of 142 dropbacks and scrambled 8 times.
In Week 2 against IND he completed 32 of 47 passes for 382 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 17 yards.
In Week 3 against MIA he completed 20 of 24 passes for 246 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 1 yards.
In Week 4 against LV he completed 15 of 30 passes for 225 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 1 yards.
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Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for Chris Rodriguez Jr. in the last completed season.
In 2025 Patrick Mahomes played 14 games and scored 296.7 PPR points, 21.2 a game, finishing QB11.
He threw for 3587 yards on 502 attempts with 22 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 422 yards and 5 touchdowns.
That came to 35.9 attempts a game at 7.1 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Side by side
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is a running back and Patrick Mahomes a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Chris Rodriguez Jr. is off in Week 7 and Patrick Mahomes in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.
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